Linux Mint 7 Gloria

I have tried several ubuntu derivates on my AAO 110 with 512 mb ram, 8 gb ssd.
Until yesterday # CrunchBang seemed to be the best. But now i have installed the latest version of Linux Mint, 7 (Gloria), and everything seems to be working oob, incl. WLAN, except from the wifi lights. After adding the Sickboy kernel also the light (the right one) is on. Fairly good boot time and battery life. http://www.linuxmint.com

 

i also have mint 7 installed on my aao1 (harddisk version)everything works except card readers, unless present at boot - wifi led (i do not care for this led)

all the rest works

which sickboy kernel did you use ??

 

I have been using Gloria as well and really enjoying it. How has your graphical performance been? It wasn't allowing me to enable Compizwizard or to play and simple graphical games. Apart from that it runs amazingly! Best distro yet, just surpassing crunch

edit: I re-installed mint 7 and this time compiz works and I was able to use a better screen resolution and such.

Ps. if you have switched your wireless cards to replace the atheros card then don't use the sickboy kernel! Your wireless card won' be automatically detected anymore.

 

I use
kernel 2.6.29.1.20090414.sickboy

 

I was very interested in running Mint on my AAO (same spec as yours 8Gb SSD, 512mb ram). But Im testing Ubuntu Netbook Remix at the moment... Ive had Mint on my primary desktop for 2 years now, nice and easy to use, at least I have more time to do work instead of configuring Linux over and over. If you have any benchmarks on your stock i386 Mint install vs UNR vs Crunch please post them.

I dont think Mint has a community release planned for a netbook remix anytime soon even though theyre a modified Ubuntu distro and roughly follow the same release cycle, I think they would have to make special .mint packages for the netbooks so its easy for new users to use mintinstall, so theyre probably short of testers/resources machines etc.

It would kind of defeat the purpose/ethos of Mint to release a half finished netbook distro that you still have to modify at the command line to get basics like leds and fan control working... nevermind switching kernels.

Plus Id love to be able to grab a .mint version of an app/game thats been tweaked to bits and recompiled specially for the AAOs

 

Does Mint 7 run any smoother than Ubuntu Intrepid or Jaunty please? I run Intrepid on my 8GB/512MB and it get a bit sluggish due to the low memoey and slow swap speed of the SSD. With the right distro though i reckon it'll fly!

 

I'm back to using #Crunchbang, http://crunchbanglinux.org/. Everything worked out of the box with Mint 7, but with Gnome it was too slow for my AAO with 8GB SSD / 512 MB Ram. #Crunchbang is very easy to install, sound and Wifi works oob, and it uses Openbox as GUI, it has a very small footprint. You may concider Openbox primitive, but right click gives you the menues you need. #Crunchbang is an Ubuntu derivate and is very configurable and easy to maintain.
Boot time is short, especially if you do the usual Ubuntu AAO tweeks.

 

Ah, OK cheers. Not much better then. Crunchbang would prbably do everything that i ask of it but i like my GNOME desktop too much. More RAM for me i thinks!

 

In fact I agree, but adding more RAM on my AAO 110 means to dismantle the whole box - I don't dare !

 

So, after testing and using several distro's on the One i keep returning to ubuntu. I like 9.0.4, gnome and kde and xfce, but kde seems to take more then the grafic card can handle, and xfce is after a while using to "barebone" ! I like kde a lot, if you tweaked it, like i did on my desktop( i fooled my wife by adding the vista theme an splash screen, she thought she was on vista( sorry for the foul language).
I came across mint, and gave it a go on the One, and i like it a lot, i believe it is snappier than ubuntu gnome...
So this will be on the One for some time.

 

I have an 8GB SDD/512GB RAM system and I really like Mint but the problem I have is that I somehow always manage to stretch the bloody GNOME icons (like I did with the Linpus Lite file manager) and so to make a long story short, I am now using UNR when I want to do some work, acerpup (from a USB flash drive/key - I haven't figured out how to install it successfully, I tried and got a jerky mouse) when I just want to go on the Internet and xPud (which I installed inside UNR) to check for email. The only drawback with xPud is that I have to re-enter my wifi encryption key everytime I use xPud but I can start the boot, select xPud from the GRUB menu, enter my WEP key for wifi, check my email on Firefox and shut down the system in less time than it takes for either Mint or UNR to boot up or recover from hibernate.

If I could have fixed the icons - a known bug apparently, I would have kept Mint.